You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.

The key to change is to let go of fear.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

Daring life!

This is how you will remember that you are mine. Every painful touch, everyaching hug, will remind you - that you are a slave - to me.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.

Social media has changed everything in our world. The collective humanity, as it was, has such a voice these days, and that's never really existed before.

I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge.

Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?" Sin: "Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker.

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.